'...a supremely gifted musician...a trumpet player for the 21st century...wow!'

j a d e

a new project from trumpeter & composer nick Malcolm

contemporary improvisation

dissolves

electronica + soulful hip-hop + classical

ABOUT NICK

Nick Malcolm is an original, heart-felt improviser. his rich, warm sound and sense of improvisational daring inform each and every musical situation and he plays with a total commitment to the music in the moment, whatever the stylistic context.

Up to 2015 he led the Nick Malcolm Quartet, featuring pianist Alexander Hawkins, bassist Olie Brice and drummer Ric Yarborough. The group played original compositions combining the rhythmic and harmonic complexities of contemporary jazz with the intensity and interaction of free improvisation. They released two albums; ‘Glimmers’ (2012) on FMR records and 'Beyond These Voices' (2014) on Nick's own Green Eyes label. The albums received excellent reviews, with Richard Williams calling the group 'a highly evolved mechanism in which four voices create a sense of perfect integration'. Most recently they had a live gig broadcast on BBC Radio 3's flagship program 'Jazz on 3' and appeared at the EFG London Jazz Festival 2014. He recorded his third album with this band, 'Real Isn't Real', with the addition of a second quartet of female vocalists in September 2015. Nick gratefully acknowledges support from PRS Foundation towards the making of this album. For a number of years Nick also co-led the improvising trio 'Alphabets' with cellist Hannah Marshall and vocalist Lauren Kinsella.

After some time out for health reasons, Nick has formed a new project, jade. The group deconstructs through sampling and improvisation original compositions influenced by JDilla, the AACM, Burial, and English Church music. The band will be touring next year in support of the release of 'Real Isn't Real'.

As a sideman he is a founder member of Eliza Carthy's 'Wayward Daughter' as well as of vocalist Emily Wright’s ‘Moonlight Saving Time’. He is a member of Rebecca Nash's Atlas, The Greg Cordez Quintet and George Cooper's Jazz Defenders. He has worked with musicians as diverse as Roger Turner, Gail Brand, Dominic Lash, Laura Jurd, Get The Blessing's Jake McMurchie, Guillaume Viltard, Shabaka Hutchings, Josienne Clarke, Jim Moray and UK soul artist Pete Josef . In November 2013 he was chosen to take part in Take Five Edition IX, a professional development scheme for emerging creative jazz musicians run by Serious.